San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-06
EDITORIAL BREvITIEs


THIS campaign will bring some strange
bed-fellows into the same political bunk
before IL Is over, or there 10 no virtue In
the present portents.
CLEVELAND is expected to visit the At
lanta state fair In October. He Will be
the greatest pumpkin there, II bis avoir-
dupois is equal to the transportation.
WHEN Carlisle and Wstterson held
their love-feast at Louisville recently,
and Henri wept over Grover, where was
the star-eyed goddess Of REFORM
HoUsToN knows how IL Is herself. She
is enjoying the Volksfest and finds IL
very fair miniature Of our San Antonio
Saengerfest. A caId-de-vesite, so to
speak, of our long TO be remembered fes-
tlyal.
The morning kilograms bring reports
of the sale of ninety acres OF Kansas City
dirt for $3.50, 900, and place the sale rate
at $500 an acre. The arithmetic OF the
dispatches is probably no concern OF the
wires.
There was no oleomargarine sug-
gestiveness about those structures on
Judge Turner's court hours delivered
in Yesterdays Times. 1t was case Of
pure hog. Unadulterated leaf lard, and
no word of its being tried out;
The French hot heads are giving the
French government trouble with their
anti-German demonstrations, but the
government pursues tranquilizing,
peaceable policy, and there Is little dan
ger OF any Immediate rupture with Ger
many.
The Press association OF Texas will
keep Queen VictOria's birthday by meet
ing in Fort Worth on the twenty-fOurth
inst. j. b. will feel proud when he learns
how Texas, far away Texas, honOrs his
Royal Mistress jubilee.
The term "Drouth Section s no more
applicable TO large area OF the territory
on which the Inhabitants m0urned, a
few weeks since, as a land without
springs in which no water was. Ii has
poured.
The battle is being Joined. The de-
mocracy of Texas have entered their
wedges at either end Of the old demo-
cratic log, and, unless two cracks make
one whole by swallowing each other
up, the division complete and actual is
only q question Of time.
The base SANDER Of the London Times
against The great irish leader gains no
cOuntenanoe from being repeated, nor
from the disgraceful partisaDship which
characterizes the parliament's treatment
Of the accused Irish members. This
course Of the commons Is certainly des-
tined to come home to rOOst.
The Austin Statesman 10 developing
Its own smartness and demonstrating IL
by comparing Its own mule swiftness
with the ox-cart slowness OF the AssO-
ciated Press. The Statesman cites chap
ter and verse for his charges and Is much
nearer the truth than usual In these
charges.
QUEEN VIC. has actually decided to
celebrate her jubilee on the day on
which she was actually born, May "a.
One of the advantages Of royalty seems
to be the privilege Of changing the es-
ereign convenience. Vic. thinks the old
way will do.
The morning daily Of this city having
mentioned the construction under way
of a jail in Floresville, the Chronicle Of
that city offers to "set EN- up" for the re-
porter who made the discovery, II he
will come down and point out the con-
struction. 1t seems to be another case
of "a dam by mill site, but no mill by
dam sight"
THE Dallas Times shows q very super
fetal knowledge OF the history OF fan
atheism when 1t says: "Fan atheism is
never very long-lived. Prohibition will
die out before election day comes around.
1t will be defeated by an overwhelming
majority" Fanstioism is long
clawed, strengthened, tough-hided var
mint.
DALLAS likes chocolate, and she likes
water, but she does not relish the chooO-
late colOred fluid served out by that city
to consumers. Her kick is vigorous, and
no wonder, as the city journals declare
that the semi fluid taken from the tur-
bid Trinity is neither fit to drink. wash
in or cook with. For pure air and pure
water San Antonio takes the bakery.
THERE are signs of growth and real
progress apparent in San Antonio, that
pass by without mention. which would
call forth all the fOrty-horse power of
booming II possessed by two or three
other cities of this state. San Antonio
is not dead, not even in tresp8sses and
sins. She is mighty lively sinner, it is
true, but her good works discount the
state.
The reported opening OF volcanoes in
the milestone mountains will, If con-
tirmed, draw large crowds of the Curl
GUS and those interested IN natural phe-
nOmena. A party of gentlemen from
this city, discussing the situation last
evening, expressed an Intention Of pack
ing their grips, il the news was con-
firmed, and there was any show for wit
Messing a genuine volcanic eruption.
Houston and Fort Worth and Dallas
are. being used as spurs on the heels oil
home journals in Rip Van-Winklian
towns, with which to goad their old
time slumDerers into activity. Thus 1t
is that the charity which begins at home
does not end there. A live town breeds
1t not only breeds business and prof
for itself, but it breeds activity In other
towns.
If prohibition Is a political question
In Kentucky according to the democratic
convention, and on-pOlitical question
according to the deliverances Of the
Lone Star democracy, will some one ex-
plain to benighted republican how the
Blue Grass and the Lone Star democ-
rscies will harmonic in national con-
vention, when it comes to arranging q
platform on which to fight the prohibit
ton plank OF the third party, OF which
st. john is patron sainte
The call ls made, and made loudly for
the improvement Of the county roads
and the opening OF the irrigation bitches,
as a means Of providing employment for
those who are willing to work. The cry
is equally loud for the accomplishment
Of this work on the ground that the best
interests OF our county demand IL. The
cited TO this thing more than enee Yet